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123 names, 179 debts. Each debt is written once, in the margin of the essay that incurs it, beside the sentence it supports. This page is the same guide seen by name; every link lands on the note itself.

Maurice Merleau-PontyPhenomenology of Perception
1Embodied Cognition2Trust the Hand7The Method of Loci8Tool Transparency and the Phenomenology of Mastery12Interdimensional Selfhood15Other Minds, Other Bodies18Remembering Well23The Spinning Disc
Abraham BuricksonExperience Design: A Participatory Manifesto
1Embodied Cognition3The Chronotope of the Virtual4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility6Language Games, Spatial Inscription, and the Grammar of XR Interaction
Peter MeineckTheatrocracy
1Embodied Cognition3The Chronotope of the Virtual5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility7The Method of Loci9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR
Jesse SchellThe Art of Game Design
1Embodied Cognition4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility7The Method of Loci8Tool Transparency and the Phenomenology of Mastery
Jane AlisonMeander, Spiral, Explode
1Embodied Cognition3The Chronotope of the Virtual5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility14The Banjo, the Body, and the Algorithm
Janet CardiffHer Long Black Hair
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface12Interdimensional Selfhood16Narrative Furniture22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Catharine EdwardsWriting Rome: Textual Approaches to the City
3The Chronotope of the Virtual6Language Games, Spatial Inscription, and the Grammar of XR Interaction7The Method of Loci20The Jukebox of Memories
Uri Hasson
1Embodied Cognition3The Chronotope of the Virtual7The Method of Loci9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR
Italo CalvinoThe Castle of Crossed Destinies
5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility12Interdimensional Selfhood13Movement as Inscription
Jacques DerridaOf Grammatology
6Language Games, Spatial Inscription, and the Grammar of XR Interaction11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface19The Grin Without the Cat
Martin HeideggerBuilding Dwelling Thinking
1Embodied Cognition8Tool Transparency and the Phenomenology of Mastery16Narrative Furniture
Edmund Husserl
1Embodied Cognition15Other Minds, Other Bodies23The Spinning Disc
Julian JaynesThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility12Interdimensional Selfhood22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Barbara TverskyMind in Motion
7The Method of Loci13Movement as Inscription14The Banjo, the Body, and the Algorithm
Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations
6Language Games, Spatial Inscription, and the Grammar of XR Interaction17Poetics of Dissolution19The Grin Without the Cat
AristotleNicomachean Ethics
3The Chronotope of the Virtual22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Lewis CarrollAlice
12Interdimensional Selfhood19The Grin Without the Cat
René Descartes
15Other Minds, Other Bodies23The Spinning Disc
Aaron FoxReal Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
2Trust the Hand20The Jukebox of Memories
Arnold van GennepRites of Passage
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Albert Michotte, with Adriano D'Aloia
9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Thomas Nagel"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR15Other Minds, Other Bodies
OvidArs Amatoria; Metamorphoses
3The Chronotope of the Virtual19The Grin Without the Cat
Roy RappaportRitual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Frank Rose, and Melanie Green and Timothy BrockThe Art of Immersion; transportation theory
7The Method of Loci9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR
Andrew SchneiderPerforming Reality, ITP
9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Day of the Tentacle (1993)
23The Spinning Disc
Clouds Over Sidra (UN, 2015)
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Sara AhmedThe Cultural Politics of Emotion
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Alison
6Language Games, Spatial Inscription, and the Grammar of XR Interaction
Guido of Arezzo
2Trust the Hand
Gaston BachelardThe Poetics of Space
16Narrative Furniture
Nick Yee and Jeremy Bailenson, with Nicolas Ducheneaut
22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Mikhail Bakhtin
3The Chronotope of the Virtual
Frederic BartlettRemembering
16Narrative Furniture
Catherine BellRitual Theory, Ritual Practice
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface
Bruno BettelheimThe Uses of Enchantment
19The Grin Without the Cat
Sharang BiswasVerdure: A Recipe
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface
Niels Bohr
17Poetics of Dissolution
Jorge Luis BorgesThe Library of Babel, and the stories
13Movement as Inscription
Pierre Bourdieu
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface
Julian BreamGuitarra
14The Banjo, the Body, and the Algorithm
Melanie Green and Timothy Brock
1Embodied Cognition
Martin Buber
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
John BulwerChirologia and Chironomia
2Trust the Hand
Abraham Burickson, Odyssey Works
9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR
Abraham Burickson, and Adriano D'Aloia
22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Janet Cardiff, with George Bures Miller"The Missing Voice (Case Study B)"; "Her Long Black Hair"; "Alter Bahnhof Video Walk"; "The Forty Part Motet"; "The Murder of Crows"
21When Fiction Bleeds Into Reality
Cicero, after Simonides of CeosDe Oratore
7The Method of Loci
Leonard Cohen, and Lana Del Rey's cover"Chelsea Hotel #2"
18Remembering Well
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface
Carol Dysinger and Kevin CunninghamAutofictions, ITP
18Remembering Well
Adriano D'Aloiaon Gravity
8Tool Transparency and the Phenomenology of Mastery
Gilles Deleuze
5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility
Hubert Dreyfus, after Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface
Hanne Grasmo and Tor Kjetil EdlandJust a Little Lovin'
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface
Sergei Eisenstein
4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition
John FowlesThe Magus
13Movement as Inscription
GoodbyeWorld GamesBefore Your Eyes
16Narrative Furniture
Marjorie Garber
22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Gérard Genette
12Interdimensional Selfhood
James J. Gibson
2Trust the Hand
Gilles Deleuze and Félix GuattariA Thousand Plateaus
23The Spinning Disc
Jamey Haddad"Internalizing Rhythm," Oberlin
17Poetics of Dissolution
The Passover Haggadah
12Interdimensional Selfhood
Ant HamptonEtiquette
12Interdimensional Selfhood
Werner Heisenberg
17Poetics of Dissolution
Johan Huizinga
21When Fiction Bleeds Into Reality
Edwin HutchinsCognition in the Wild
9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR
Don Ihde
8Tool Transparency and the Phenomenology of Mastery
Tim IngoldThe Life of Lines
4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition
Vijay Iyer
4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition
George Jones"The Grand Tour" and "The King Is Gone (So Are You)"
20The Jukebox of Memories
Geoff Kaufman
1Embodied Cognition
Akira KurosawaRashomon
17Poetics of Dissolution
Manuel De Landa
5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility
Emmanuel Levinas
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Karen LinnThat Half-Barbaric Twang
14The Banjo, the Body, and the Algorithm
Theodor Lipps
9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR
Jeff Hull and Nonchalance; Spencer McCallThe Jejune Institute; "The Institute" (documentary)
21When Fiction Bleeds Into Reality
Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR
Janet MurrayHamlet on the Holodeck
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
John O'Keefe, and May-Britt and Edvard Moser
7The Method of Loci
Pauline OliverosDeep Listening
4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition
Kirk OrmandExchange and the Maiden
19The Grin Without the Cat
Allison ParrishElectronic Rituals, Oracles, and Fortune Telling, ITP
18Remembering Well
Hasu Patel
14The Banjo, the Body, and the Algorithm
Noam Pikelny
14The Banjo, the Body, and the Algorithm
Third Rail Projects"Then She Fell"; "The Grand Paradise"; "Ghost Light"
21When Fiction Bleeds Into Reality
Vladimir ProppMorphology of the Folktale
19The Grin Without the Cat
Punchdrunk"Viola's Room"
21When Fiction Bleeds Into Reality
Raymond Queneau, François Le Lionnais, Georges Perec, the OulipoLa Disparition; Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes
5Constraints, Combinatorics, and the Architecture of Possibility
Quintilian
2Trust the Hand
Quintilian, and the Rhetorica ad Herennium
7The Method of Loci
The Proteus Effect (VR avatar research, unnamed here)
21When Fiction Bleeds Into Reality
Frank RoseThe Sea We Swim In
1Embodied Cognition
RotozazaEtiquette
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Oliver SacksHallucinations
22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, sung by Randy Travis"On the Other Hand"
2Trust the Hand
Erwin Schrödinger
17Poetics of Dissolution
Earl Scruggs
14The Banjo, the Body, and the Algorithm
Namwali Serpell
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Arthur ShimamuraPsychocinematics
9Symbiotic Consciousness and Distributed Selves in XR
Christopher Small
4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition
Euripides and SophoclesBacchae; Trachiniae
22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Gayatri SpivakCan the Subaltern Speak?
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Frank Stockton"The Lady, or the Tiger?"
18Remembering Well
Andrei TarkovskyMirror
12Interdimensional Selfhood
Sherrill TippinsInside the Dream Palace
18Remembering Well
Alfred Tomatis
4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition
Star TrekJadzia Dax; "Loud as a Whisper"
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Victor Turner
11Ritual Design and the Kitchen as Sacred Interface
Gregory Ulmer
6Language Games, Spatial Inscription, and the Grammar of XR Interaction
Francisco Varela, Andy Clark, and Alva Noë
1Embodied Cognition
Björn Vickhoff
4From Temporal Cuts to Spatial Composition
Hugh of St. Victor
7The Method of Loci
Andy WarholChelsea Girls
18Remembering Well
Andy WeirThe Egg
15Other Minds, Other Bodies
Alfred North WhiteheadProcess and Reality
21When Fiction Bleeds Into Reality
Hank Williams, Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Townes Van Zandt, George Strait, Don Williams
20The Jukebox of Memories
Frances YatesThe Art of Memory
7The Method of Loci
Froma Zeitlin
22The Body That Cannot Be Unwritten
Jack ZipesBreaking the Magic Spell
19The Grin Without the Cat
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